Furniture-brace.



PATENT-ED JUNE 2, 1903.

vNo. 7s0;o92.

' W. D. GHILDRESS.

EURNITURE BRAGE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 14, 1903.

NO MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented June 2, 1903.

WALTER D. CHILDREss, or sT. LoUIs, MISSOURI.

FURNiTuRE-BRACE.

SECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 730,092, dated June 2, 1903. y l Application filed February 14,1903. Serial No. 143,408. (No model- I T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LVS/'ALTER D. CHILDREss, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Furniture- Braces, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to furnitu re-braces, and one of the principal objects is to provide a device for strengthening and bracing the side rails of a bed and also bracing other furniture. c

With this object in view the invention consists of a pair of revoluble adjustable disks mounted one upon the other and having coinciding ratchets whereby the slack in the wire forming part of the brace can be taken up.

The invention further consists in providing guide-l ugs or projections in one of the disks which overlap the opposite edges of the other disk to` retain the brace in proper relative position. f

Other objects as Well as the novel details of construction will be apparent'as the nature of the invention is better understood by reference to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of a bed provided with a brace and tension device and constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of one of the tension members. Fig. 3 is atop plan view of the vopposing member.

The reference-numerals 1 and 2 designate the side rails of a bed, and the numerals 3 and/l refer to the head and foot board, respectively. Diagonally arranged wires or iexible brace connections 5 and 6 are fastened at their opposite ends tothe head and foot board and to the side rails ofthe bed in any preferred manner, said connections intersecting each other and arefor the purpose of securing and bracing the parts together.

In order to keep the connections taut, I pro-v vide a tension device, which consists of two members, one adjustable with relation to the other. In Fig. 2 is shown a plan View of one of the members, which comprises a circular disk 7 having a concentric perforation S and a handle 9, projecting from the periphery thereof. Disposed in diametrical opposite relation to each other and carried on the periphery of the disk are two guide-lugs or projections 10 and 10a, which have inwardly-projecting lips at their free extremities which are designed to overlap the edges of the opposing member, (shown in Fig. 3,) to be more specifically referred to hereinafter. At a convenient point on the face of the disk are a plurality of ratchet-teethll. The opposing disk 12 is slightly less in diameter than the disk 7 and is provided with oppositelylocated arcuate abutments 13 and- 14, the j ends of which form shoulders adapted to 65 abutagainst the lugs orprojections on the v disk 7, whereby the movement of rotation of the disk 12 will be limited, said limitation being the length of the spaces formed between the ends of the abutments 13 and 14. The lips 10 and 10iL project from the edges of the disk 12 to `nold it in proper relativeposition on the disk 7, said disks being adapted t0 be clamped together by means of a pin or post 15, projecting through the opening 3 in the disk 7 and through an opening lin the disk 12 and secured to the latter, and the disks will be prevented from slipping by means of the engagement of the teeth 17 on the disk 12 with those designated bythe reference-numeral 11 on the disk 7. The teeth 17 are preferably located on the face of the abutment 13, while an oppositelylocated handle 18 projects from the abutment 14: and corresponds to the handle 9, carried by the disk 7. v n

The reference-numerals 19 and 2O refer to two diametrically oppositely disposed lugs or projections carried by the ends of the abutments 13 and 14 and by coacting with the lugs on the disk 7 are effectual in taking up the slack of the braces 5 and 6.

The normal position of the tension-device is shown in Fig. 1, in which the intersecting brace-wires are shown as passing aroundy the 95 lug of one disk and around the lug of the opposing disk on opposite sides, When itis necessary or desirable to tighten the braces, draw the handles 9 and 18 in the same direction sufficiently to impart-a partial rotation to the relative disks to draw the braces taut. The teeth or ratchets on the respective disks will then be caused to engage each other and the improved tension device will be held in IOO proper position. It will be apparent that the slack in the braces can be promptly taken up to firmly hold loose or disjointed parts of furniture.

Having thus described the invcntion,what is claimed as new isl. A tension device for furniture, comprising two members adjustablysecured together, lugs carried by one of the members and having projecting lips overlapping the edges of the other member, abutments carried by the other member and adapted to contact with the lugs, whereby its movement will be retarded, the lugs provided with the lips being also designed for engagement with a brace- Wire, and means on the opposing member for engagement with the Wire, said members being relatively arranged to tighten the Wires when in their adjusted position.

2. A tension device for furniture-braces comprising two members pivotally connected and each comprising a disk and a grip, ratchet-teeth on the one disk at a point diametrically opposite the grip thereof, ratchetteeth on the disk of the other member near the grip of the same to engage the ratchetteeth of the first-named disk, lugs carried on the respective disks and diametrioally opposed to each other, and abutments on one of the disks between which the lugs of the other disk are positioned. I

In testimony whereof I afix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

VALTER D. CHILDRESS. Witnesses:

E. W. TOUR, D. R. EVANS. 

